Last year, the Federal Circuit ruled that Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a), which prohibits registration of “scandalous, immoral, or disparaging” marks, could not be used to deny registration of the mark the “Slants” for an Asian-American band, because Section 2(a) violates the First Amendment.

The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a prevailing plaintiff in a Public Records Act case is entitled to recover statutory attorney’s fees from the public agency that unlawfully denied access to the records.

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